Test Planning Contracts in London

Test Planning
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Test Planning skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Planning over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 296 315 431
Rank change year-on-year +19 +116 +57
Contract jobs citing Test Planning 54 82 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.44% 0.47% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.53% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 66 26
10th Percentile £362 £371 £388
25th Percentile £365 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +3.53% +1.19%
75th Percentile £564 £638 £629
90th Percentile £651 £750 £692
England median daily rate £425 £500 £509
% change year-on-year -15.00% -1.67% +1.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £78.75 - -
Median hourly rate £82.50 - -
75th Percentile £86.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £83.00 £87.50 £80.00
% change year-on-year -5.14% +9.38% +237.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test Planning falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,225 15,457 23,121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.24% 88.42% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,536 11,093 16,726
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 316 265
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.20
25th Percentile £23.80 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £28.00 £39.42
Median % change year-on-year +11.95% -28.97% +12.39%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £66.88 £82.50
England median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%

Test Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Test Planning as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in London.

Daily rate trend for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Planning in London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Planning in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Planning in London

Test Planning
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Planning within the London region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +5 5 £505 -8.18% 4
South London +4 1 £413 +8.55% 2
East London - 1 £360 -
Test Planning
England

Test Planning
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.26%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Murex MxG2000
2 1 (1.85%) Endur
2 1 (1.85%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.85%) SAP GTS
2 1 (1.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.37%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (9.26%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (9.26%) Power Automate
3 5 (9.26%) Power Platform
3 5 (9.26%) PowerApps
4 4 (7.41%) AWS
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon EC2
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
5 3 (5.56%) Amazon S3
5 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (5.56%) AWS CloudTrail
5 3 (5.56%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (5.56%) Datadog
5 3 (5.56%) GitHub
5 3 (5.56%) Serverless
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) SaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) LAN
1 2 (3.70%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.85%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) MS Access
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Hive
2 1 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.85%) Hadoop
2 1 (1.85%) Impala
2 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 18 (33.33%) JIRA
2 8 (14.81%) Jenkins
3 6 (11.11%) Git
4 4 (7.41%) JMeter
4 4 (7.41%) Postman
4 4 (7.41%) QARun
4 4 (7.41%) REST Assured
4 4 (7.41%) WinRunner
5 3 (5.56%) Selenium
5 3 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.70%) eggPlant
6 2 (3.70%) Gatling
6 2 (3.70%) TeamCity
6 2 (3.70%) TestCafe
7 1 (1.85%) Appium
7 1 (1.85%) Gradle
7 1 (1.85%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (1.85%) TestRail
7 1 (1.85%) Zephyr
General
1 31 (57.41%) Social Skills
2 28 (51.85%) Finance
3 13 (24.07%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (24.07%) Banking
4 6 (11.11%) Marketing
4 6 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 4 (7.41%) Manufacturing
6 3 (5.56%) Electronics
6 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
6 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.70%) Back Office
8 1 (1.85%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.85%) Front Office
8 1 (1.85%) Legal
8 1 (1.85%) Local Government
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.85%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 22 (40.74%) Analyst
2 11 (20.37%) Test Analyst
3 10 (18.52%) Lead
3 10 (18.52%) Senior
4 9 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 9 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 9 (16.67%) Test Manager
5 7 (12.96%) Test Leader
6 5 (9.26%) Finance Business Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Senior Test Analyst
6 5 (9.26%) Tester
7 4 (7.41%) Financial Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Microsoft 365 Manager
7 4 (7.41%) Senior Business Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Senior UAT Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) Transformation Manager
7 4 (7.41%) UAT Analyst
7 4 (7.41%) UAT Test Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Senior Financial Analyst
8 3 (5.56%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Middleware
1 4 (7.41%) Web Services
2 1 (1.85%) ADO
2 1 (1.85%) Flutter
2 1 (1.85%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) Playwright
2 1 (1.85%) REST
2 1 (1.85%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 6 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 5 (9.26%) Low-Code
3 2 (3.70%) Derivative
3 2 (3.70%) FPGA
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (3.70%) Online Banking
3 2 (3.70%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (3.70%) Verilog
3 2 (3.70%) VHDL
4 1 (1.85%) Equities
4 1 (1.85%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.85%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.85%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.85%) PMI
4 1 (1.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Windows
2 4 (7.41%) Unix
3 2 (3.70%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 25 (46.30%) Test Automation
3 24 (44.44%) Agile
4 18 (33.33%) DevOps
5 15 (27.78%) Test Strategy
6 14 (25.93%) Defect Management
7 12 (22.22%) Test Management
8 11 (20.37%) Integration Testing
8 11 (20.37%) Manual Testing
8 11 (20.37%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
8 11 (20.37%) System Integration Testing
9 10 (18.52%) CI/CD
9 10 (18.52%) Regression Testing
9 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 10 (18.52%) Validation
10 8 (14.81%) Business Continuity
10 8 (14.81%) Migration
10 8 (14.81%) Software Testing
11 7 (12.96%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.52%) SQL
2 5 (9.26%) Java
2 5 (9.26%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) CodeQL
3 3 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 3 (5.56%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.70%) RPG
4 2 (3.70%) SOQL
4 2 (3.70%) SystemVerilog
Qualifications
1 9 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 9 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) Degree
3 4 (7.41%) CBAP
4 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
4 3 (5.56%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.70%) IIBA
5 2 (3.70%) PhD
5 2 (3.70%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.85%) ISEB
6 1 (1.85%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (31.48%) QA
2 1 (1.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.85%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.85%) NCSC
2 1 (1.85%) PMO
2 1 (1.85%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Firmware
2 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (11.11%) HP ALM
2 3 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (14.81%) SAP
2 7 (12.96%) Microsoft
3 6 (11.11%) HP
4 4 (7.41%) Citrix
5 3 (5.56%) Murex
5 3 (5.56%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.70%) Cisco
6 2 (3.70%) Oracle
6 2 (3.70%) Workday
7 1 (1.85%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.85%) Avaloq
7 1 (1.85%) Calypso
7 1 (1.85%) Charles River
7 1 (1.85%) CyberArk
7 1 (1.85%) OpenLink